Software Engineer II / III

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global financial services company as a Software Engineer II/III within their Strategic Data team in Glasgow. You will develop innovative software solutions and work with cutting-edge technologies, contributing to the design and delivery of trusted data analytics solutions. Ideal candidates have a strong background in backend development, particularly Java, and experience in agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot required.
• Proficient in backend system design and application stability.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and large distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, stable, and scalable software applications.
• Analyze large data sets to enhance software functionality.
• Engage in agile team practices and improve coding practices.

Skills

Backend development

Java

System design

Application development

Agile methodologies

SQL

NoSQL

Spring Boot

Education

Formal training in back end development

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Job Description

Be part of a dynamic team where your distinctive skills will contribute to a winning culture and team. We have opportunities for a Software Engineer II and a Software Engineer III within our Strategic Data team based in our Glasgow Technology Centre.

As a Software Engineer II/III at JPMorgan Chase within the Strategic data team in International Regulatory Reporting, you will serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining critical software applications and architectures across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and troubleshoots innovative software solutions.
• Creates secure, high-quality production code and maintains system-integrated algorithms. Writes clean, well-documented, testable code.
• Produces architecture and designs artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met.
• Analyses and visualises large data sets to improve software applications and systems.
• Identifies hidden data patterns to enhance coding practices and system architecture.
• Engages with software engineering communities to explore emerging technologies.
• Fosters a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Develops and maintains microservices using Java with Spring Boot.
• Builds scalable REST APIs and backend components.
• Deploys, monitors, and manages services in AWS, especially EKS (Kubernetes).
• Demonstrates familiarity with messaging queues like kafka, SQS etc.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on back end development concepts and proficient applied experience

• Proficient advanced experience in back end development in any one of the languages such as java, go, Kotlin. Willingness to work on backend stack focused mainly on java, spring boot.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability.
• Previous experience in developing, debugging and maintaining code in large distributed systems.
• Proficient in Spring boot and associated ecosystem (JPA, spring security, hibernate).
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application resiliency and security.
• Solid grasp on SQL and NoSQL databases.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on back end development concepts and proficient applied experience
• Solid understanding of docker, Kubernetes, configuration management utilities like helm, kustomize.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.